VIDEO: Warren Keeps Dodging the Middle Class Tax Question

Submitted by asabes on Monday, October 7th, 2019, 10,16 AM

Elizabeth Warren once again dodged the middle class tax question and refused to say whether her Medicare for All plan will raise taxes on the middle class during a Service Employees International Union forum on Friday, according to a video by Zak Hudak.

This is at least the 17th time Warren has dodged the middle class tax question.

Warren is avoiding the reality that middle-class Americans would have to pay more in taxes -- as Bernie Sanders notes is necessary -- to fund “Medicare for All.”

"Yeah, [we'd have to] raise taxes on the middle class," Sanders told a CNN reporter after the July debate.

Warren repeatedly dodged the question in September during an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. An exasperated Colbert tried to offer advice about the "taxes that perhaps you're not mentioning."

In July, Warren got into a heated exchange with MSNBC's Chris Matthews while refusing to answer Matthews' question on middle class tax hikes. She also dodged the question during the CNN and ABC debates.

In POLITICO Jeff Greenfield noted that Warren could be holding back an admission that Medicare for All will lead to higher taxes for the middle-class because she is worried about losing voters.

Greenfield wrote:

This leaves an obvious question that will follow her through the campaign: “Bernie Sanders is frank enough to acknowledge the obvious, and then explain it. Why won’t you?” The answer may be as simple as: If you say you will raise middle class taxes, an unmeasurable but likely significant number of voters simply will not bother to wait for the rest of your explanation.

As ATR noted earlier, Medicare for All would require anywhere from $32 trillion and $36 trillion in higher taxes over the course of the next decade.